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Feminine Fascism: Women in Britain's Fascist Movement, 1923-45
Author(s): Julie V. Gottlieb (Author)
- Publisher: I.B. Tauris
- Publication Date: 15 Sept. 2000
- Edition: New
- Language: English
- Print length: 224 pages
- ISBN-10: 1860645445
- ISBN-13: 9781860645440
Book Description
Representations of fashionable femininity have multiplied through the twentieth century. In fashion store advertising, magazines, photography and museum collections, complex versions of feminine identity have been and are being formed. This book examines the relationship between women’s fashion, female representation and femininity in Britain from the end of the nineteenth through to the end of the twentieth century. The authors unpick the dynamics of the fashion system throughout the century, and set fashion into the context of British social life, using as one of their many sources the oral history accounts of women of all classes to highlight the meanings of particular fashions in that context.
Editorial Reviews
Review
‘…it must be emphatically stated that this is both an original and important book which has major significance for both gender studies, and the history of British Fascism.’ -English Historical Review ‘If anyone was tempted to believe, given the plethora of works on British fascism, that there was little left to say, Julia Gottlieb’s Feminine Fascism would disabuse them.’ -Times Higher Education
About the Author
Cheryl Buckley is Reader in Design History and Hilary Fawcett is Senior Lecturer in Design History, both in the School of Humanities, University of Northumbria.
